errrr.... should I worry if my baby has eaten a maggot?

[x Helen x]

Sorry if that title just made you gag!!

I was in the kitchen and noticed a couple of maggots wriggling about on the floor next to the bin, obviously I picked them up straight away and threw the bin out but LO has been crawling around on the floor all day... what if she ate one?! Should I be worried?

I feel a bit sick...

 

[Creative]

No, if she's crawling about she's getting all sort of bacteria and nasties on her hands anyway. Obviously if she became unwell then you would worry, but I don't think that there will be any issues.

 

[fieryphoenix]

Some cultures eat maggots, I'm sure she'll be fine!

 

[C_baby]

Ewwwww!!!

She'd be absolutely fine, stomach acid would kill it instantly even if it hadn't been *ahem* chewed.

Oh bless I think I'd throw up!

 

[bbkf]

Its gross but wouldn't hurt her!

 

[wifey29]

I ate a maggot as a child apparently, and a worm and a slug. I was a strange toddler lol. I was fine and I'm sure your lo will be. There will probably be lots of gross moments in the next few years.

 

[Larkspur]

LOL, all good protein. My brother ate a cicada once. Alive.

 

[minties]

Yummy! Bugs and grubs are pretty nutricious as far as I am aware.

Thomas has eaten snails and cat poo, and lived to tell the tail.

Hearing about maggots reminds me of crockpots, and a gross story. When I was about 14 my mum made a chicken casserole in a crockpot (slow cooker), we atë half of it and left it on the bench. Someone moved it behind some stuff. We forgot about it. A while later, enter a horrible stench. Mum put it in the gardën, planning to tip it out and bury the casserole. Forgot to do it, and that pot got filled with copious amounts of maggots. My brother and I werw facinated. We would check on them twice a day to see how big they were getting. Our school friends would come look too. Sadly, they all died on a hot sunny day. RIP maggot mates.

 

[Katerz]

Yummy! Bugs and grubs are pretty nutricious as far as I am aware.

Thomas has eaten snails and cat poo, and lived to tell the tail.

Hearing about maggots reminds me of crockpots, and a gross story. When I was about 14 my mum made a chicken casserole in a crockpot (slow cooker), we atë half of it and left it on the bench. Someone moved it behind some stuff. We forgot about it. A while later, enter a horrible stench. Mum put it in the gardën, planning to tip it out and bury the casserole. Forgot to do it, and that pot got filled with copious amounts of maggots. My brother and I werw facinated. We would check on them twice a day to see how big they were getting. Our school friends would come look too. Sadly, they all died on a hot sunny day. RIP maggot mates.

Lolol!! Love that your school friends came over to see them!

 

[Unexpected212]

My sister used to hunt down spiders and eat them. She was fine lol

I also ate a worm when I was little. Bit of extra protein

 

[annanouska]

Lo enjoyed a snail last week but shell was crunchy....no Im not taking the p!ss x

 

[wemustntpanic]

I used to regularly eat tadpoles. I liked the way they wiggled down my throat

I only stopped when my older brother cooked one for me... They are definitely a raw type of delicacy.

I'm also in the strange child catagory.

 

[Creative]

We have a friend whose 15 year old son last year ate a garden slug and a garden snail. He said that the snail was much nicer!

 

[x Helen x]

Hahaha thanks ladies, these replies have really made me chuckle!!

 

[AC1987]

I'm sure it won't harm your baby.. but I think I may have just gagged a bit

 

[Dezireey]

I think I am going to be sick LOL.

I have a real phobia about maggots. Ate one once in an orange and I was hysterical about it. Also stuck my hand into a little sewing box once and there were maggots in there?? So then I thought as a child that maggots could get into everything and even climb into your bed at night and wiggle up your bum (schoolfriend told me that!)

So now I have a phobia

 

[Midnight_Fairy]

We had them on our bins too. Horrid